Hilarious Example of Media Bias  —  You've got to watch this video.  CNN's Soledad O' Brien ran a focus group of self declared Republicans, Democrats and undecideds during the Palin/Biden debate.  —  Soledad asked them immediately after the debate, “How many thought Joe Biden won the debate tonight?”

Exclusive: Obama to preempt McCain assault  —  Branding his opponent as “erratic in a crisis,” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to portray him as having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans.  —  Obama officials call it political jujitsu - turning the attacks back on the attacker.

Palin, on Offensive, Attacks Obama's Ties to '60s Radical  —  Gov. Sarah Palin seized on a report about Barack Obama's relationship with a former 1960s radical to accuse him of “palling around with terrorists.”

Pitbull Palin Mauls McCain  —  SARAH PALIN'S post-Couric/Fey comeback at last week's vice presidential debate was a turning point in the campaign.  But if she “won,” as her indulgent partisans and press claque would have it, the loser was not Joe Biden.  It was her running mate.

U.S. Fiscal Crisis Seems to Have Altered Political Map  —  McCain's Challenge Is Underscored by Pullout From Mich.  —  The faltering economy has left Sen. John McCain on the political defensive, altering the landscape in many of the most important battleground states and providing a series …

Sarah's Pompom Palaver  —  I had hoped I was finally done with acting as an interpreter for politicians whose relationship with the English language was tumultuous.  —  There's W.'s gummy grammar, of course, like the classic, “Is our children learning?”  And covering the first Bush White …

John Warner might vote for Democrat  —  Retiring Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.) beat his Democratic opponent, Mark R. Warner, by 6 percentage points in the Old Dominion's “Warner vs. Warner” race of 1996.  —  Now, he might cross party lines and vote for him.  —  Mark Warner, who went …

Pressured to Take More Risk, Fannie Hit a Tipping Point  —  “Almost no one expected what was coming.  It's not fair to blame us for not predicting the unthinkable.”  — Daniel H. Mudd, former chief executive, Fannie Mae  —  When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd …

Officials say Taliban mad over alleged US strike  —  DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - The Taliban are unusually angry about the latest suspected U.S. missile strike in Pakistan, a sign a top militant may have died in the attack, officials and residents said Sunday amid reports the death toll rose by two to 24.

‘Intelligent’ computers put to the test  —  Programmers try to fool human interrogators  —  Can machines think?  That was the question posed by the great mathematician Alan Turing.  Half a century later six computers are about to converse with human interrogators in an experiment that will attempt to prove that the answer is yes.

L.A. Times Finally Admits that the President Can Fire the SEC Chair After All  —  It turns out that the President can indeed fire the Chair of the SEC after all.  —  After the L.A. Times and many others wrote that the President has no such authority, I sent a complaint to the L.A. Times on September 23.